Apparently some 50 pubs a week are closing down due to poor trading conditions as people choose to drink at home and business rates climb. Most of these are in the north.
I've always wanted to buy an interesting looking, defunct, country pub and convert it into a house. They're an especially a good purchase because they invariably come with what we experts call a car park, which provides plenty of land to develop for another house which can provide an income, or fund the conversion of the main pub building. A cellar is also a good advantage in a house.
It would seem that the only pubs that survive are those that adapt to the times and become principally restaurants, but that means a lot of hard work and much longer hours than just a simple drinking pub, as well as some additional skills that not all have.
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